The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-07


and 31st, and good to return until Monday
and Tuesday, January I'd and Sd inclusive.
The rate for both these excursion periods
will be fare one way for round-trip tickets.
THE Good Templars in this state received
an impetus from the session of the grand
lodge at West Randolph in October which
is already being felt. Successful and inter-
esting district unions have been held in
Lamoille county and at Sharon and st.
Johnsbury, the latter two being addressed
by the grand chief templar, G.. ii. Smalley
of Lyndonville, and by Frank Plumey, Esq,
of Northfield. Sharon Lodge was revived
November 25th with seventeen members
and prospects of large increase in a short
time. The official returns which have been
received for the quarter ending November
LIST show that gains have been made by the
lodges at johnson, STAFFORD, Newport Cen
ter, Jay, Bennington, lrasburgh, Warren,
Lowell, Lincoln and North Pownal. Ben
nington made net gain of seventeen, its
total membership being one hundred two.
Mortified lodge has initiated twelve since
the meeting of the grand lodge. November
22d a public meeting was held at Cabot,
Rev. A. III. Webb of Northfeld. The eX-
ecutive committee hope to put a state Or
ganizer into the field in a short time.
In General.
JACoB SHARP will have anew trial.
THE Syracuse papers have increased their
price
The public debt was increased S1,io0,0O0
in November.
SEVERAL steamers are caught in the ice in
the inland lakes.
Four men persisted in a burning hotel at
Brookville, Kansas.
JAKE" SHARP was released from Ludlow
street Jail on $4,000 bail.
HENRY JAMES TEN EYCK, city editor of
the Albany Journal is dead.
GOVERNOR BoDwELL of Maine is very sick
with congestion of the lungs.
BRADsTREET's estimates the cotton crop
at $1,000 bales less than last year.
The discovery of gold mine on the Po-
tomac near Washington is reported.
A BRoNzE statue of the late President Gar.
field was recently unveiled at Cincinnati.
THE price of coal is said to be declining,
and no coal famine is to be feared this sea-
son.
BAYS and coves on the Hudson from AL
bany to Cornwall are entirely covered
with ice.
THE Standard Oil Company is preparing
to build pipe line from New York to
Chicago.
THE prohibition national convention is to
be held in the first week of June at Iu-
dianapolis.
THE London Morning Post exposes an al
legged plot of Fenians to assassinate Lord
Harrington.
CAMERoN's celebrated picture, Niagara
Falls" was burned in London Monday.
Loss $4,000.
THE man who murdered Octavius Cato
sixteen years ago in Philadelphia has con-
fessed his crime.
NINE buildings were burned at Aiken, S.
c., including a number of stores. Loss
$4,000; insurance S21 600.
A LOCOMOTIVE exploded near Mahanoy
City, Penn. and three train hands were
killed and two fatally injured.
THE majority against prohibition at the
recent election in Atlanta was LIPS. The
sale of liquor will begin at once.
DIPHrHERIA of a peculiarly fatal character
is alarmingly prevalent in Montreal. Last
week there were thirty-two deaths.
ONE man was killed and two others
fatally and two dangerously injured by the
explosion of boiler at Denison, Ill.
OTHER two-cent dailies in New York city
are expected to follow the Herald example
and advance the price to three cents.
II. f. BURBEcK, for nearly ten years as
sstant city editor of the Boston Herald, died
last week from paralysis of the nerves.
Denman Thompson, claiming 5000 for the
drama Rich and Poor" was dismissed.
THE indictments against the twenty-five
anarchists in Chicago who were not tried
have been reinstated and warrants issued.
THOMAS p. RYDER, the well-known or
ganist pianist and composer, died at Somer-
vile, Mass, last week, aged tifty-two years
SIX hundred cases of typhoid and mala-
rial fever are reported in Ottawa, the dis
ease having assumed the form of an cpl
demic.
In rescuing the 6272 persons imperled
within reach of United States life-saving
stations last year eight of the rescuers lost
their lives.
TWENTY were killed and mauy injured by
an earthquake at Besignano, Calabria
Several shocks We're felt throughout the
province of Calabria.
The insurance commissioner of Connecti-
cut has asked the courts to appoint re-
ceiver for the Continental Life Insurance
Company of Hartford.
THE first train through from Pittsburgh
via Loon Lake, and consisting of two pas
senger-coaches, arrived at Saranac Lake
last week Wednesday.
THE announcement is made by the presi-
dent of large coal corporation that within
fortnight there will be a reduction of 81 per
ton in the price of coal.
IT is said that an attempt will be made in
this congress to amend the interstate law so
as to affect the Canadian roads running
through United States territory.
THE project for building bridge over the
Mississippi River at Memphis, which has
been extensively agtated of late years,
seems in way to take definite shape.
SENATOR PALMER of Michigan will intro
duce in the senate at the earliest possible
opportunity bill for regulating and re-
stricting emigration by keeping out per-
sons who seem likly to be undesirable citi-
zens.
THE president has denied the application
for pardon of George b. Gorham, convicted
in Massachusetts OF counterfeiting, and that
of Frank Lobby, convicted in Vermont of
making a false affidavit on pension APP
plication.
THE Belleville avenue Congregational
church of Newark, n. j., has voted to re-
tain Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost in the PASTOR
ate, Notwithstanding his recent discourses
on anarchy and espousal of Henry Georges
theories.
JOHN ENGLE, twelve-year-old boy, made
a sensation at Nanticoke, Penn. He bought
revolvers, two bowie-knives and other
weapons, and somebody had given him
some liquor. He stood on "A street corner
reading from dime novel and firing his
weapons into the air He had stolen $50
from his parents and was going West to
shoot Indians. While being carried to a
Jail he leaped from train going forty-fve
miles an hour and has not been seen since.
IT is a somewhat singular fact that NJ
Grevy resigned his Office on the second day
day Of December. Napoleon III. dissolved